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Surerintendcnt Bates. of the free deliv

Superintendent Bates, Of the free deliv-
ery service, postoflire department. says
that the cities of the country arc showing
great bacllwardness in calling FOR the SER
vice to which they are entitled under the
law past last winter giving it to tcwns
of ten thousand inhabitants, or to towns
whose postoiIice receipts reach SlO 600
per wear. "Why." he sail, 1--WE get let
ters every day from towns entitled to the
service Indignantly referring to the fact
that we have given the service to rival
towns Of the same size and neglected
them. They will make no application for
the service, and we can send no lnspec-
tors to the town except upon application.
The fact of it is that large number of
these towns don't ask for the service be-
cause such a movement is discouraged
by the postmaster. He is afraid that II
the service is established his box rents
will fall off and his income decrease. He
is aided by the grocers near the postofice,
by the dry goods house, and by the man
in whose store the postoffice is kept-all
of whom are interested in having the
crowd come to the postofice for its mail,
instead of having it carried to them. AS
result, citizens groan and complain be-
cause neighboring town gets the service
and their own town is neglected Ey the
postotiicc authorities. Towns will get
| the free delivery system wheu citizens
take it into their own hands to make an
application to the department for it,
The National Democratic Convention
of 1855 will consist of $50 delegates, divid-
ed as follows: The Now England States,
IS; the Middle States, l20; the Southern
States, 500; the Western States, 2l2; the
II l,a IN, hn
District of Columbia, is. The two thirds
rule obtains in the grand census of the
Democracy, and the man who will be
nominated will have to get, therefore, 547
votes.
The Methodist Book Concern in n. Y.
City having outgrown the capacity OF the
property, it is intended to sell the prop
ertv and erect buildings adapted to the
needs of the Methodist publishing inter-
ests. It is said such building can now
he put up free from debt.
In an address at Philadelphia, Canon
Wibeforce, after stating the fact that
France has undertaken the experiment
of living without Cod, made the signiti-
cant comment that last year there were
1852 suicides there from chagrin, misery
and dspair.
Why do the Negroes remain in the
South if the Northern people would treat
them differently from the Southern?
Why do Negro cooks, carriage drivers.
etc., remain in Virginia and work for
lower wages than are offered them tn
New YorE.-Richmond Dispatch.
The committees of the Northern and
Southern Presbyterian Churches, to make
arrangements for the Centennial celebra-
ton in 1888, have decided that the cele-
bration shall take place on the 4th Thurs
day in May, 1883, Ill Philadelphia.
Illinois and Wisconsin are suffering
for rain. Streams dried up, crops burned
up before half grown, pastures scorched,
forests Oh fire, DC. Public prayers are
being offered"
BY the use of palladium in the hair
spring and balance, Il Geneva watchmak-
or claims to have produced accurate time
pieces which are unaffected by magnc-
tiSm.
During the last century 100 lakes in the
Tyrol have subsidized and disappeared, ac-
cording to DR.. y. Bohln, OF the GeoSra-
phical Society OF Vienna.
The Interstate Normal Institute at
Wiliiamston, ). G., free to all white teach
ers of the State, will be open from July
II to July q.
1t is said that twcnty-siX railroads cen
ter in Chicago, and that l53 passenger
and suburban trains arrive and depart
daily.
Oscar J. Harvey, clerk in the third Au-
ditor's Office, Washington, has been de-
tected in making fraudulent claims Tor
horses sold the government, aggregatinS
50 900 He has been arrested.
The sheriff took possession Of the pro-
perty OF the Knights of Labor Publish
ing Company, Chicago, June 30, on a con-
fession OF Judgment in favor of George L.
Delfler, for IS, 133. A receiver has been
appointed.
The number Of insane people in this
are increasing three and halfl
times as fast as the population. So II is
said.